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TAMPA — A swarm of bees and Michael Pineda were too much for the Red Sox yesterday, who fell to the Yankees, 8-1, in a game that featured a flat start from Felix Doubront.

The left-hander allowed 10 hits and seven runs in 32⁄3 innings, the kind of start that would be alarming if he had not been close to perfect in his other two this spring (0.00 ERA over six innings with no walks and six strikeouts). Doubront built his pitch count up to 79 (just 44 for strikes), but he was not fooling anyone wearing pinstripes.

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